Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio

24K-Production/iStock(NEW YORK) -- China unveiled ambitious plans to send humans to Mars and build a base on the red planet at a recent space exploration conference. Wang Xiaojun, the head of the stat...

KeithBinns/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration is planning to move interpreters and other Afghans who have worked for the U.S., along with their families, to a safe location amid growing fe...

Noah's Ark Zoo Farm(LONDON) -- A young elephant has been killed after it sustained injuries in an attack by another elephant while it slept in a zoo enclosure. The tragic incident occurred on Friday, ...

ABC News(KABUL, Afghanistan) -- What Seddiqa Mahmoodi remembers most from that day were the screams. When a girls' school outside of Kabul was attacked last month in a triple bombing, the 17-year-old ...

200mm/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Britain has denied claims from Russia’s military that a Russian patrol ship and fighter jet fired warning shots at a British navy warship as it sailed through waters ne...

Macky_CH/iStock(ST. PETERSBURG, Russia) -- You may think of Russia -- especially the northern areas from St. Petersburg to Moscow and into Siberia -- as one of the coldest places on Earth, but that wa...

KeithBinns/iStock(KABUL, Afghanistan) -- "Abdul" says he fears for his life, his wife's and his three children's, but that is exactly why he is speaking out. "I am fighting for my family and for other...

Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Fresh from accompanying President Joe Biden on his first overseas trip, Secretary of State Antony Blinken returns to Europe for his first vis...

RyanFletcher/iStock(NEW YORK) -- American fighter jets were twice in flight over Hawaii earlier this month as a precaution against Russian bombers training in the region, ABC News has learned. A U.S. ...

omersukrugoksu/iStock(ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia) -- Voting was underway in Ethiopia Monday as Tigray, the northernmost regional state of the country, is torn apart by civil war and famine. Eritrean troops...